Passive microwave remote sensing of snow depth: Techniques, challenges and future directions

S Tanniru, R Ramsankaran - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring snowpack depth is essential in many applications at regional and global scales.
Space-borne passive microwave (PMW) remote sensing observations have been widely …

Retrieval of effective correlation length and snow water equivalent from radar and passive microwave measurements

J Lemmetyinen, C Derksen, H Rott, G Macelloni… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Current methods for retrieving SWE (snow water equivalent) from space rely on passive
microwave sensors. Observations are limited by poor spatial resolution, ambiguities related …

[HTML][HTML] A genetic particle filter scheme for univariate snow cover assimilation into Noah-MP model across snow climates

Y You, C Huang, Z Wang, J Hou… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Accurate snowpack simulations are critical for regional hydrological predictions, snow
avalanche prevention, water resource management, and agricultural production, particularly …

The impact of multi-sensor land data assimilation on river discharge estimation

WY Wu, ZL Yang, L Zhao, P Lin - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
River discharge is one of the most critical renewable water resources. Accurately estimating
river discharge with land surface models (LSMs) remains challenging due to the difficulty in …

Validation of remotely sensed estimates of snow water equivalent using multiple reference datasets from the middle and high latitudes of China

JW Yang, LM Jiang, J Lemmetyinen, K Luojus… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A key variable describing the mass of seasonal snow cover is snow water equivalent (SWE),
which plays an important role in hydrological applications, weather forecasting and land …

Exploring the utility of machine learning-based passive microwave brightness temperature data assimilation over terrestrial snow in high mountain Asia

Y Kwon, BA Forman, JA Ahmad, SV Kumar, Y Yoon - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study explores the use of a support vector machine (SVM) as the observation operator
within a passive microwave brightness temperature data assimilation framework (herein …

A joint landsat-and modis-based reanalysis approach for midlatitude montane seasonal snow characterization

SA Margulis, Y Liu, E Baldo - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A new snow reanalysis method is presented that is designed to jointly assimilate Landsat-
and MODIS-derived (MODSCAG) fractional snow covered area (fSCA) to characterize …

Multi-sensor land data assimilation: Toward a robust global soil moisture and snow estimation

L Zhao, ZL Yang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Global monitoring of soil moisture and snow is now available through various satellite
observations from optical, microwave, and gravitational sensors. However, very few …

Assessing Noah‐MP parameterization sensitivity and uncertainty interval across snow climates

Y You, C Huang, Z Yang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study assessed the sensitivity and uncertainty interval of the Noah land surface model
with multiparameterization (Noah‐MP) using observed meteorological data from eight sites …

Evaluation and blending of ATMS and AMSR2 snow water equivalent retrievals over the conterminous United States

Y Gan, Y Zhang, C Kongoli, C Grassotti, Y Liu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study first compares two different passive microwave snow water equivalent (SWE)
retrievals, namely the retrieval from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) …